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noun

Dispute n.

Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate. "Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute."

Contest; struggle; quarrel.

Beyond dispute, Without dispute, indisputably; incontrovertibly.

Synonyms: Altercation; controversy; argumentation; debate; discussion; quarrel; disagreement; difference; contention; wrangling. See Altercation.

verb

Dispute v. t.

To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss. "The rest I reserve it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein."

To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments. "To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance."

To strive or contend about; to contest. "To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards."

To struggle against; to resist. (Obs.) "Dispute it (grief) like a man."

Synonyms: To controvert; contest; gainsay; doubt; question; argue; debate; discuss; impugn. See Argue.

Dispute v. i. (past & past part. disputed; pres. part. disputing) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. "Therefore disputed (reasoned,) he in synagogue with the Jews."

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Etymology of 'Dispute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home • Bayard Taylor

... some of the boys were so unskilled that they had not even drawn correctly the outlines of the dark patches about which there was no dispute. ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

... charmant!" cried some of the fair sex, who, as well as the men, had been attracted by, and were listening to the dispute. "Que Monsieur l'Anglais est drole: et voyez Moustache, comme il a l'air content—vraiment c'est un ...

— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... many of them with a distinctly bad cause. Even in the present day, and among Christian nations, there is far too little tendency to appeal to arbitration, which is the only legitimate way for reasonable men to settle any dispute or quarrel. Does your sympathy go with ...

— The Rover of the Andes - A Tale of Adventure on South America • R.M. Ballantyne

... in Virginia now? Between the men who want to make their slaves mechanics, for the increased wages it will secure, and the men who oppose, for fear of the influence it will have on the general security of slave property and white throats. Just that dispute will go on, wherever the Union is dissolved. Slavery comes to an end by the laws of trade. Hang up your Sharpe's rifle, my valorous friend! The slave does not ask the help of your musket. He only says, like old Diogenes to Alexander, "Stand out of my light!" Just take your awkward proportions, you ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

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